Awhile back my good friend Jack York made a comment about the word 'redd'. The comment appeared in the blog titled Mark's Buck. I have included the comment here in the blog.

"I redd, you redd, but does Mark redd?  I have used the word in conversation, but never used it in a written document.  So that's how it is spelled!"

When I was younger we moved from one National Park to another National Park. It was the best way for my father to advance his career in the National Park Service. It was in those moves we picked up on a lot of dialects. I remember living in Philadelphia and asking for a glass of water only pronouncing 'water' as 'wooder'. Then when we moved to Central Pennsylvania I was hearing new terms and one of those terms was 'redd up'.

So when Jack commented that he always used the word in conversation but never in the written form and was curious about the spelling, I went to the internet to research the origin of the word 'redd'. I hope you enjoy what I was able to discover.

redd - The term means to clear. 'redd up' means to tidy. Redd up came over to America from Scotland when the scottish immigrants settled here in Pennsylvania. The word 'redd' is still used in Scotland and Northern Ireland and means 'to clear an area or to tidy up'. In America the word is primarily used in Pennsylvania.

Do you have any interesting words you use in your conversation?

My buddy Cory uses the word 'Slippey' to describe what the pavement is like on this snowy day here in Pennsylvania . . . . Slippery.